Toonkamer spring show
2012, February 6th
We are very honoured that the Dutch 'Toonkamer' collective of 30 famous Dutch interior design brands offered us a guest exposition for two months. The Toonkamer in Utrecht shows the latest collections of the affiliated brands like Pastoe and Gelderland in a former 5000m2 furniture factory. On February 6th and 13th Eelco Grimm will be present at the Toonkamer spring show.
Toonkamer web site
Grimm Audio LS1
HiFi-Tage Hamburg
2012, February 4th
Grimm Audio's Guido Tent will joint our German distributor Audio Import at the HiFi-Tage in Hamburg. This nice hifi show in the Northern part of Germany is organized by Wolfgang Borchert of HiFi Studio Bramfeld, a well known dealer for our German customers. Please come and enjoy the LS1 with our prototype LS1s subwoofers in the Holiday Inn Hamburg, Room 1512, February 4th & 5th.
HiFi-Tage Hamburg web site
Audio Import
'Meet the Designer' clocking workshop
2012, January 12th
Our Belgium distributor iDeal Audio organizes a 'Meet the Designer' workshop in Belgiums' famous 'Motor Music' studio in Mechelen. Eelco Grimm will have two sessions with lectures and demonstrations about clocking. Both students and professional engineers are welcome.
iDeal Audio website
Grimm Audio CC1
LS1 picked as 'favorite equipment'
2012, January
The January issue of Dutch musicians and producers magazine 'Interface' featured a 'favorite equipment' list of their authors. Wessel Oltheten selected the LS1 because "This powered monitor has helped me improving my mixes, more than any other piece of equipment in my studio." By the way, Colin Benders ('Kyteman') who is pictured on this editions' front page, proudly owns a Grimm Audio AD1...
Interface website
Grimm Audio LS1
EinsNull magazine lyrical about LS1
2011, December 21st
German EinsNull magazin reviewed the LS1 and digged really deep into all details. They were stunned by the LS1's performance. Editor in chief Christian Rechenbach wrote: "This is probably the most "correct" loudspeaker I've ever laid ears on. The combined honesty, neutrality and pleasing musicality is at a level that I haven't come across before."
EinsNull magazin website (E-paper 06-2011)
Grimm Audio LS1
AD1 quality spotted blindly
2011, December 19th
At SA-CD.net a new SACD from Channel Classics was discussed. Tom Caulfield, project manager for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote: "I have most of the Channel Amsterdam Sinfonietta SACDs, and appreciate them not only for their musicianship, but for how they sound. They all have a richness, level of realism, and sonic detail that is typical of Channel Classics. But this one immediately struck me as different. The strings were much more realistic, as was the spaciousness.
I wasn't expecting this since the booklet tech notes stated the converters used were the Meitner and dCS, as on previous sessions. While very good, they each have an identifiable sonic signature. A note to Jared cleared up the confusion. The booklet is incorrect, this session/SACD used the Grimm converters, and it was obvious. I particularly like the Mahler 5 Adagio. I get to hear a similar size group here in Boston, A Far Cry, and this was like sitting in front of them. Highly recommended."
SA-CD.net discussion
Grimm Audio AD1
John Newton first MP1 customer
2011, December 15th
Classical Music sound recordist John Newton, famous for his work with Boston Symphony Orchestra, bought the first two MP1's that came out of the factory. Newton said: "I was thrilled with your power supplies for my Neumann M50's. We used those mics for an upcoming Chandos release of the Kansas City Chorus, and they were stunning."
John Newton's Soundmirror company
Grimm Audio MP1
Grimm and Grace at AES New York
2011, October 21st
For the first time we will share the booth at the AES convention with our new US distributor Grace Design. We are very much looking forward to this event! To celebrate there will be many products that experience their US premiere, like the LS1s subwoofer prototype, TPR single and multichannel cable, and the LevelNorm loudness normalizing software for Avid workstations. Also new on show are production units of the LS1 remote and the MP1. You are most welcome to visit us at booth #355.
AES 131st convention
Grace Design
LS1s subwoofer
2011, October 10
The New Music hifi show in Brussels premiered our LS1s subwoofer extension for the LS1. The audience received it very well. Three men were caught with tears in their eyes, some stayed for an hour listening to the impressive playback of large orchestral work. The new sub did not add 'more base' to the LS1, but instead offered an improved mid and even high end, big and effortless impact (concert drum!) and a very high realism. The prototype shown here has a grey colour, the production version that is to be released in a few months will have black finish.
Grimm Audio LS1
New Music Belgium hifi show
2011, October 8 & 9
At the third 'New Music' hifi show in Brussels, Belgium, Grimm Audio will be present in demo room 238 of our Belgium distributor iDeal Audio. We offer demo's and work shops by Bruno Putzeys, Guido Tent and Bart van der Laan about the LS1 speaker, CC1 master clock and TPM cable.
New Music Belgium hifi show
iDeal Audio
LS1 at Nordic Sound Symposium
2011, September 24th
Eelco Grimm was invited to give a lecture about the LS1 at the Nordic Sound Symposium, the small and friendly Norwegian conference where Scandinavian Audio Engineers gather for three days "to drink together" as the old greek denotation of the word Symposium is, and enjoy a very nice series of lectures on top of that.
Nordic Sound Symposium
Grimm Audio LS1
CC1 review in Sound on Sound
2011, September
Sound on Sound published a short review of the CC1 master clock. Although the author praised the build quality of the unit, he also noted that he could not hear any improvement in the sound of his setup. Unfortunately he did not mention that he prefers converters with high jitter attenuation on their clock input. This encouraged us to write a manufacturers comment that will be published in the November 2011 issue of Sound on Sound. Below is a link to both the article and the comment.
Sound on Sound CC1 review
Manufacturers comment
LevelNorm and LevelShow launched!
2011, July 8th
Two new products on one day! We are very proud to introduce 'LevelNorm', an AudioSuite broadcast loudness normalizer for Avid work stations, and 'LevelShow', a file normalizer for the Microsoft DirectShow™ environment. LevelNorm is an affordable solution for everyone who needs to comply to the new EBU R128 or ITU BS.1770-2 standards. It offers the convenience of high speed normalizing directly in your favorite AV editor. Try the fully functional demo today!
Grimm Audio LevelNorm
Grimm Audio LevelShow
New production premises
2011, July
Our new production premises are slowly filling up with 'products under construction'. We rented an extra 300m2 close to our office because demand for our products is growing. Here you see Hans working on a new batch of LS1's.
Grimm Audio LS1
Hans van Bommel joins our team
2011, June
With many new products on the horizon and increasing demand, Grimm Audio was in need of more helping hands. We are glad to let you know Hans van Bommel joined us to enforce the production, testing and logistics team. Hans has always had a passion for music, which he currently enjoys as drummer in a punk rock band and volunteering at his local youth centre and at pop festivals.
An illuminating CC1 experience
2011, June 4th
Another enthusiastic review for the CC1, this time with pro gear in a hi-fi setting. Reinhold Martin of the German 'Hifi Statement Net Magazine' tests the CC1 with a DAD AX24 converter and a Weiss AFI digital interface. He writes: "Absolutely indispensible is the Dutch master clock from Grimm Audio. Throughout even the most turbulent passages the recording space stays luxuriously illuminated and the soundstage remains absolutely clear."
Hifi Statement Net Magazine CC1 review (in German)
Wisseloord orders 50 km TPR cable!
2011, April 6th
During Musik Messe we announced that Grimm Audio has developed a new affordable cable named 'TPR' for the rejuvenated Wisseloord Studios in The Netherlands. After creative director Ronald Prent ascertained that TPR approached the performance of his favorite Grimm TPM cable, he ordered 3 km of 16 pair multicable and a few km of single wire. TPR will be available from September.
Grimm Audio TPR
Wisseloord Studios
Atomic clocks for audio?
2011, April 5th
In a new white paper Bruno Putzeys shines his light on a topic that receives a lot of attention (almost 1 million hits on Google) but according to us is just deceiving when it comes to audio quality: atomic clocks.
"Picoseconds or ppm?" white paper
Big surprise at the Musik Messe!
2011, April 6th - 9th
Eelco Grimm and Bart van der Laan will be present at the Messe booth of our German distributor Audio Import. All Grimm Audio products will be on show - including a big surprise! Find out at the Pro Light & Sound show, hall 5.1, stand B61.
Pro Light & Sound
Audio Import
Grace Design becomes our US distributor
2011, March 29th
We are thrilled to let you know that Grace Design has become our exclusive distributor for the United States and Canada! Michael Grace, President of Grace Design, says: “Grimm Audio products are exquisitely refined and immaculately engineered audio tools. We are proud to be able to help bring them to creative audio professionals and consumers in the US and Canada. We are excited for this partnership and look forward to a future of collaboration with Grimm Audio.”
Grace Design
LS1 promo pictures in Studio Eleven
2011, March 28th
Three nice pictures were added to our 'Press' page. These show an LS1 set in action at the large 'Studio Eleven' facility in Hilversum, one of our first LS1 customers. Frans de Rond and Marcel Booij of BFN share this great recording space that was build in 1959 for the Dutch World Services broadcasts.
Studio Eleven
Grimm Audio press page
Dutch HVT magazine admires LS1
2011, March
"Did Grimm Audio reinvent the loudspeaker?" heads the enthusiastic article by Bert Oling of Hi-fi Video Test. Bert explores numerous technical features of the LS1 design and writes in great detail about the sound. He notes aspects like "a truthfull image size at all kinds of playback levels", "a very neutral sound colour, even off-axis", "very analytical but without even a hint of listening fatigue", and surprisingly "visiting females were without exception charmed by the visual design"...
Hi-fi Video test magazine
Hi-fi Video test LS1 test pdf (in Dutch)
Hi-Fi News reviews LS1
2011, March
Famous UK magazine Hi-Fi News made the LS1 'editor's choice' of their March issue. Author Keith Howard was impressed by the LS1's unusual design, its measured performance, the tonal neutrality and meticulously controlled stereo image. Unfortunately he did not get used to the speakers' extremely low distortion during the course of his review and he confused this with a lack of "the harsh truth". Indeed the LS1 does not add an edge of its own and some hi-fi lovers will miss that. People looking for a precision tool that is both honest and natural will however appreciate this character.
Hi-Fi News magazine
LS1 Sweet Spot in Resolution
2010, December 24th
The November/December issue of the UK professional audio magazine 'Resolution' features an integral publication of our 'Speakers' white paper. The 'Sweet Spot' section of Resolution is dedicated to 'the demystification and understanding of monitoring and acoustic issues' and we are honoured to be part of that.
Resolution magazine
LS1 'Speakers' white paper pdf
Visit us at the San Francisco AES
2010, November 5th
AES lands in San Francisco again and we join the band at booth #639. Bruno and Eelco will be present and are happy to have a chat about Grimm's current and upcoming products. MP1 is finally shipping and LevelOne makes its US debut, at an AES convention where Loudness is the buzz word.
AES 129th convention
"This is just Super!!"
2010, October 29th
We received an email from LS1 customer Wessel Oltheten. "I have to let you know that yesterday I mixed a large project on the LS1's (drums, acoustic base, grand piano, flugel horn, clarinet, alt sax, tenor sax, two violins, two cellists and a singer, with quite dense scores). When I listen to the result on the small speakers of my girlfriends' computer I can only smile. I added much less EQ than normally and the sound is much more coherent than I ever achieved before. The amount of reverb is spot-on and at both low and high playback volume the mix balance stays correct. This is just super!!"
Wessel's studio Spoor 14
Dutch reviewer applauds LS1
2010, October 27th
More LS1 admiration! Reviewer Wessel Oltheten of the Dutch Pro Audio & Video magazine wrote in their November issue: "I could observe time related aspects of the sound that I never heard on other monitors. For example I heard the individual reflections of a slap-back echo. And I heard the action of a compressor: its exact threshold point, the amount of reduction and the release. (...) You have to work hard on the LS1's to get a good sounding mix, but once you have it, you can be sure it really is a good mix. Decisions on balance and eq can be made with high precision." The article did not mention that after the review Wessel sold his high quality monitor set and traded it for a pair of LS1's...
Pro Audio & Video
Pro Audio & Video LS1 review pdf (in Dutch)
Studio Magazin rave review of LS1
2010, July 1st
Germany's main professional audio magazine 'Studio Magazin' gave the LS1 an 'A plus' in their very positive review. To cite author Fritz Fey: "After 30 years of editorship I thought I ran out of superlatives. 'Fairylike' however never was among them but I could not find a better wording to describe a studio monitor that is equally suited as source of pleasure as for reference use. (…) We listened to pop, rock, jazz and classical music in random order and were always offered the same experience of exceptional naturalness, musicality and tonal purity. (…) I have rarely auditioned a loudspeaker that can sound so beautiful and at the same time is so unsparing on bad source material. (…) The goal of Grimm Audio to develop a loudspeaker that simply sounds 'right', has been reached to extreme high level. (…) Anyone who cares for uncompromised audio quality should get to know the LS1."
Studio Magazin
Studio Magazin LS1 review pdf (in German)
First customer levels 130.000 files!
2010, June
Our first LevelOne customer TVA mastering facilities in Belgium immediately took off in full speed and converted 130.000 surround files only weeks after his purchase. TVA developed proprietary upmix algorithms to offer full surround content as demanded by his customer Umac, a high res online music shop.
TVA Music Company
Umac
LevelOne software
Grimm Audio Web Shop open!
2010, May 21st
To support the sales of our software LevelOne, we decided to open a web shop. You can buy our software in the secure MultiPay environment, used by many large online store companies. Hardware will still only be sold via our dealers. If you prefer the software is also available via our dealers.
Web Shop
LevelOne software
Munich High End 2010
2010, May 6th
Grimm Audio will see its consumer hifi show debut at the biggest European hifi show, the High End 2010 in Munich. We are teaming up again with our German distributor Audio Import. All our consumer products will be on demo: a set of sofa height LS1's, the CC1 reclock unit and our TPM high end cables. Meet us at Hall 4, Booth L04 in the M,O,C, in Munich from May 6th to 9th.
High End Munich
Audio Import
Al Pryor buys first LS1 set
2010, March
New York jazz producer Al Pryor has become our first LS1 customer. He is known for his jazz productions, among which the Count Basie Orchestra. Al heard the LS1's at the New York AES show, ordered a demo and was sold. After final installment Al was said to be VERY happy with how they sounded in his room. Photo courtesy of Drew McEachin of Grimm Audio's New York dealer Studio Consultants.
Studio Consultants
Booth at Pro Light & Sound
2010, March 24th
Grimm Audio is present at the impressive booth of our German distributor Audio Import during Pro Light & Sound in Frankfurt. Key element of the booth will be a set of LS1 loudspeakers. Of course all other products are on show too, like the CC1, the first production units of the MP1 and also our first software product: LevelOne. Meet us in Frankfurt, Hall 5.1 B61 from March 24th till 27th.
Pro Light & Sound
Audio Import
TapeOp reviews the CC1
2010, February 4th
US magazin TapeOp, well known for its profound reviews, published a substantial test of the CC1. Two authors, Garrett Haines and Bob Katz independently performed extensive tests, including a blind listening test with 80 trials. They concluded "we should regard this listening test as very indicative that the Grimm clock makes the 192 I/O sound better." This is a very important conclusion, since it is the first time in history that there is scientific indication that jitter frequencies below 200 Hz do influence sound quality.
TapeOp
TapeOp CC1 review pdf
HVT tests CC1
2010, February 3rd
The Netherlands' main Hifi magazine 'Hifi Video Test' features a four page article about the CC1 in their February issue. Author Marnix Bosman presents background information on jitter and puts the CC1 to test as master clock for an Esoteric SA-10. He finds "a larger improvement even than I expected. The sound actually gains quality in all aspects." Using the CC1 as digital interlink reclock unit he enjoys improvements ranging from 'interesting' to 'massive'.
Hifi Video Test magazine
Hifi Video Test CC1 test pdf (in Dutch)
New web site
2010, February 1st
Our former web site was designed around just one product, the AD1. It was getting a bit long in the tooth. The need for a web shop to facilitate sale of our software products felt like the perfect excuse to completely rebuild the site. At the same time we decided to join the social media trend and start making video tutorials and audio demo's. Our online service will thus provide a much better service to our customers. We are very proud of the result, please send us a line at Facebook and tell us what you think.
web designer Laura Visser
Grimm Audio at Facebook
